What to Do About Huawei?

The Chinese telecom-equipment maker may be No. 2 in the world, but it's still distrusted by Uncle Sam.

By

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

Updated July 10, 2012 7:06 p.m. ET

Stealing is an activity that seemingly unites the private and public selves of Chinese officials. The country is notorious for its official corruption. It's also notorious for its suspected role in state-sponsored data and technology theft. "We lose enormous intellectual property rights. We're under constant attack," is how the Joint Chiefs' Gen. Martin Dempsey recently put it.

Tears don't spring from our eyes, then, for the travails of Huawei Technologies. That company, privately owned supposedly by its own...